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Well, I found a great field out the back of my apartment block... absolutely perfect.
I was testing out my Gaui X2 before finishing off the build, practicing some tail down funnels at a safe height when all of a sudden I see the tail pushrod come free from the servo, twist into the tail blades and get smacked out into space....
I was at about 80 degrees of bank, mid funnel, spinning wildly out of control... fun.
Managed to get it roughly upright (it was spinning too fast for my meagre skills to keep up fully) and hit throttle hold just before it went in with a small flare to arrest the descent and kill the blade speed. Pictures of the wreckage are attached! The damage was actually very limited, I think thanks to it going in fairly level. Broke the landing skids, a tail blade was broken where it hit the tail push rod, snapped a servo arm and the pushrod itself was no where to be found. Everything else checks out just fine with no visible damage. Just added up the cost of replacement parts and it's a whopping $12.95 with T-rex 250 landing gear to replace the standard carbon stuff.
Looks like the ball pulled out of the servo horn, so to be on the safe side I ordered a new horn for the DS95i too so I can re-drill and make sure the new ball stays put. £2.50 from wheels wings and rotors... thank you very much.
Anyway, first flight after stacking the Gaui I decide to try out the mCP X again to get back into things lol. Noticed a few strange brief glitches in collective but they weren't too bad so carried on flying. Inverted over my heli pad and whap, big dose of positive pitch suddenly comes out of no where... slamming the mCP X straight into the pad inverted at full 5,200 rpm head speed. Broke one of my new KBDD blades, damaged a blade grip and broke a link. Repaired with parts from my little spares store and a bit of CA glue on the blade grip. Cleaned the servo traces and that seemed to get rid of the collective glitching. Cost of repairs zero... but I will be getting some replacement KBDD's and maybe use the excuse to get some metal blade grips.
Thankfully my Protos survived the carnage today, but is my field now doomed? Two mechanical failures in the space of 5 minutes... madness!
I was testing out my Gaui X2 before finishing off the build, practicing some tail down funnels at a safe height when all of a sudden I see the tail pushrod come free from the servo, twist into the tail blades and get smacked out into space....
I was at about 80 degrees of bank, mid funnel, spinning wildly out of control... fun.
Managed to get it roughly upright (it was spinning too fast for my meagre skills to keep up fully) and hit throttle hold just before it went in with a small flare to arrest the descent and kill the blade speed. Pictures of the wreckage are attached! The damage was actually very limited, I think thanks to it going in fairly level. Broke the landing skids, a tail blade was broken where it hit the tail push rod, snapped a servo arm and the pushrod itself was no where to be found. Everything else checks out just fine with no visible damage. Just added up the cost of replacement parts and it's a whopping $12.95 with T-rex 250 landing gear to replace the standard carbon stuff.
Looks like the ball pulled out of the servo horn, so to be on the safe side I ordered a new horn for the DS95i too so I can re-drill and make sure the new ball stays put. £2.50 from wheels wings and rotors... thank you very much.
Anyway, first flight after stacking the Gaui I decide to try out the mCP X again to get back into things lol. Noticed a few strange brief glitches in collective but they weren't too bad so carried on flying. Inverted over my heli pad and whap, big dose of positive pitch suddenly comes out of no where... slamming the mCP X straight into the pad inverted at full 5,200 rpm head speed. Broke one of my new KBDD blades, damaged a blade grip and broke a link. Repaired with parts from my little spares store and a bit of CA glue on the blade grip. Cleaned the servo traces and that seemed to get rid of the collective glitching. Cost of repairs zero... but I will be getting some replacement KBDD's and maybe use the excuse to get some metal blade grips.
Thankfully my Protos survived the carnage today, but is my field now doomed? Two mechanical failures in the space of 5 minutes... madness!
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